Published March 20, 2024
- Netanyahu is set to speak to GOP Senators at their regular lunch meeting on Wednesday via video call
- The Israeli PM has escalated tensions after Chuck Schumer called for him to be replaced in a speech last week
- Biden has faced mounting pressure to halt Netanyahu’s siege on Gaza, and faced backlash from the right for saying Schumer gave a ‘good speech’
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak with Republican Senators in an apparent snub to President Biden after the White House praised Democrat Chuck Schumer’s call for new Israeli leadership.
The Israeli Prime Minister, 74, will speak with GOPlawmakers via video call at the conference’s regular lunch meeting on Wednesday, according to Punchbowl News.
Netanyahu’s appearance is said to be tentative, and comes a week after plans fell through for him to speak with Republicans a week ago at a policy retreat after he was invited by Wyoming Senator John Barrasso.
President Biden reportedly called his Israeli counterpart this week to calm tensions, after he praised Schumer for making a ‘good speech’ where the Jewish New York Senator slammed Netanyahu as an ‘obstacle to peace.’
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
RELATED: Biden privately told Bibi he’s not trying to push him out
Published March 19, 2024
President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their call on Monday that he is not trying to undermine him politically, two sources with knowledge of the call told Axios.
Why it matters: In recent weeks, Netanyahu has been fuming both in private and in public over what he saw as attempts by the White House and Democrats in Congress to weaken him politically inside Israel.
- Biden has been attempting a tricky maneuver: breaking with Netanyahu and his Gaza war strategy while sticking with Israel and its fight against Hamas.
Driving the news: Netanyahu first became concerned the White House is trying to undermine him after Israeli minister Benny Gantz, a member of the war cabinet and the prime minister’s main political rival, visited Washington two weeks ago.
- Netanyahu’s suspicions increased when, in an interview with MSNBC earlier this month, Biden said Netanyahu is hurting Israel more than he is helping Israel.
- Last week, the U.S. intelligence community released its annual unclassified assessment, which said Netanyahu’s political future is in jeopardy, further ratcheting up Netanyahu’s concern.
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SOURCE: www.axios.com
RELATED: Biden and Bibi Are Fighting, and Trump and the GOP Smell Blood
As tensions between Democrats and Netanyahu grow exponentially, in step with the death toll in Gaza, Israel’s prime minister is hoping that Trump and the GOP, eager to use the crisis to bash Biden, will offer him a political life raft
Published March 20, 2024
WASHINGTON – The Republican Party has found itself at an intensifying crossroads in recent years, where the GOP’s long-established hawkish wing has been cannibalized by its ascendant isolationist wing.
